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Topic: Communication and social skills
Body language and personal space
This week's issue of Behaviour Matters looks at the importance of body language and personal space, offering advice on how to understand personal boundaries in order to get the best response from pupils
Limited choices to improve behaviour
This week's Behaviour Matters explains how offering students limited, but constructive, choices can improve their behaviour and learning
Making positive use of personal space
This week's Behaviour Matters looks at how you can use body language to support and encourage students
Developing communication skills for behaviour management
This issue of Behaviour Matters looks at the importance of pupils and teachers having basic communication skills.
Passive and aggressive adult behaviour
This issue focuses on the importance of teachers being emotionally aware in order to set a good example. This requires the ability to assess how their actions (body language, gestures etc.) are perceived by pupils.
Primary Assembly: Ever younger
This week's assembly focuses on the question, 'who is the world's youngest male Olympian?' after the recent contestation over who can truly claim that record
Conflict resolution: practical strategies
This issue outlines some of the important issues surrounding the emergence of conflicts and provides you with practical ideas to help resolve them
Managing behaviour through non-verbal instructions
This issue deals with the use of non-verbal cues for classroom management, suggesting practical solutions to instil discipline without having to raise your voice
Self-calming techniques
This issue looks at anger management - recognising the triggers of emotional build-ups and using techniques to manage emotions
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- August Bank Holiday and the end of summer
- Ofsted’s letters to children
- Should the government intervene more in schools?
- Are GCSEs really too easy?
- The importance of school size
- School democracy: learning conversations
- Valuing high achievement
- Getting organised for next term + Help Sheet 12
- Success in teaching thinking programmes: 7 key classroom strategies
- Lesson plans for key stage 2: Olympic Island
- Primary Assembly: If at first you don't succeed
- Implementing QCA's framework for (PLTS) personal, learning and thinking skills
- Pirates ahoy! A literacy lesson plan
- Activities to develop gross motor skills
- Activities to develop spatial awareness
- The road to a creative curriculum
- Attachment theory
- Do teachers at your school spend too much time on admin?
- What aspect of behaviour management is most important to you?
- When preparing for next term, what will you spend most time on?
- How often will you visit teachingexpertise in the summer holidays?
- The summer break is nearly here! What are you looking forward to most?
- Now the summer holidays are in sight, many people think that teachers can take it easy. Is this true?
- Over the past year, pupils’ general behaviour in my school has:
- Do you think that distributing leadership is a good idea?
- Should performance-related pay be introduced into schools in England?
- Do you think the National Challenge policy to close 'failing' schools is a good idea?
- An innovative approach to support pupils with profound or complex needs
- Using dilemma-based learning in the classroom
- Writing frames for key stage 1: Developing understanding of lifecycles
- Creative teaching: Myths and legends numeracy projects
- Assembly: Olympics Games in Beijing (secondary)
- Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) primary assembly: Consequences of bullying
- Enrichment activity (secondary maths): The lifetime travel of a penguin
- Sample school development and improvement plan (primary)
- Teaching strategies for effective learning
- Integrating gifted and talented provision
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